ED Arrests Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik In Money Laundering Case
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik.
ED officials took Malik to a government hospital for medical examination and he is likely to be produced in a special PMLA court.
Malik, who was arrested after seven hours of interrogation, said on his way to the hospital after his arrest that he would not bow down.
“Jhukenge nahi, darenge nahi, expose karenge (we will not bow down, won’t fear, will expose),” Malik said.
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The 62-year-old Maharashtra minister is being questioned in a money-laundering probe related to the activities of the Mumbai underworld, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his associates, officials said.
He had reached the ED’s south Mumbai office in the Ballard Estate area around 8 am and AM and the agency is recording his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they added.
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